National Air & Space Meuseum:
Time is at 11AM AT MAIN ENTRANCE OF NATIONAL AIR & SPACE MUSEUM:
The National Air and Space Museum brings joy to everyone from little young ones in elementary school to college kids. The National Air and Space Museum can help you grow your mind and show if you have an interest in the aerospace industry. The museum shows so many different fields of science and aerospace science such as physics, space engineering, flight mechanics, aerodynamics, engineering, and astronomy. The concepts, discoveries, and inventions that were portrayed in the museum were the 1903 Wright Flyer, the first aircraft to have a successful flight by the Wright Brothers. Bernoulli’s Principle explains how differences in air pressure create lift, allowing planes to fly. They use a hot air balloon to demonstrate how the balloon rises because of its heat and air pressure. Another gallery showed the Apollo missions from NASA. One of the most striking exhibits is the Apollo 11, which carried astronauts to the Moon in 1969. It also explains Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which shows how rockets achieve thrust and escape Earth’s gravity as it exists in the atmosphere. The Saturn V Rocket, the powerful launch rocket that had humans reach the moon. Jet Aviation and Modern Flight Gallery, talked about modern and military aircraft. One of the key artifacts is the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, an aircraft known for its speed during military flights. The gallery explained how the jets on aircraft influenced air travel. Additionally, the exhibit explores the design of aircraft to help better perform so they can reduce drag and improve fuel efficiency. The museum effectively conveys information through interactive displays. The Apollo exhibit includes astronaut suits, and mission logs, to demonstrate how humans traveled to space. The How Things Fly Exhibit allows visitors to test wing shapes in wind tunnels and see if they can sustain the wind. The spaceflight simulators provide a virtual experience of piloting a spacecraft. The interactive components were effective in conveying information because they allowed people to understand how air travel truly works through the behind-the-scenes of the jets and wings used. The exhibit designers portrayed astronomical concepts to make updated information available to visitors by having virtual reality and displays of new technology to have visitors understand real-life aerospace.